In March of 2005, ad technology company United Virtualities boasted that it could track Web users through a "pie," or persistent identification element," that would remain on people's computers even ...

An ad-serving firm analyzed 20 advertisers and more than 5 billion impressions in fourth-quarter 2017, and found 64% of their tracking cookies were either blocked or deleted by web browsers. The ...

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free is one of the most critically acclaimed and popular anti-malware programs, listed by tech website CNET in 2013 as its most downloaded anti-spyware program. The free ...

European regulators start pursuing companies it believes are breaching the regulation and currently Oracle and Salesforce are in the crosshairs. The use of third-party cookies for ad tracking has ...

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Earlier this month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), the organization that has jurisdiction over enforcement of the Health Insurance ...

Unlike its browser competitors, Firefox will soon start blocking tracking cookies by default in the name of consumer privacy. Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who ...

Big Brother has a new secret weapon, and he's using it to watch your every Internet move. Computer files called Flash cookies may have told him which websites you visited this morning, what purchases ...

Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, has rolled out a feature called Total Cookie Protection as part of its Enhanced Tracking Protection "Strict Mode" that promises to stifle cross-site tracking ...

For many years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm on the use of cookies to track, profile, and serve personalized ads to web users. The discussion has been especially acute over cookies ...

California-based engineer and entrepreneur Lou Montulli said the original 'cookie' he created decades ago was intended to make life online easier by letting websites ...